Swedish filmmaker to shoot documentary about Azerbaijan's Shusha

Swedish photographer and filmmaker Mikael Silkeberg will shoot a documentary about Shusha and its cultural and historical heritage.

According to Report, the filmmaker spent three days in Shusha.

He said that this is an attempt to convey the culture and peculiarities of this city to the European world.

Silkeberg noted that he plans to use excerpts from ghazals and mugham in the documentary and find similarities with other musical genres, including even jazz. "There are very similar elements in European jazz music, like improvisation. And I will try, having learned the local culture from scratch, to bring it to the European audience," he said.

The main symbol of the documentary will be the Kharibulbul flower. Filming will take place in Shusha and Baku.

The Swedish director said that one of the strongest impressions from what he saw in Shusha was the "executed monuments of the figures of Azerbaijani culture."

"They are like a symbol that the destroyed can be restored and that the rest of the city's monuments will be restored in the near future," the director said.

According to him, the documentary is expected to be premiered at the film festival in Turkiye in August.